Luyện nghe bài hát Ubaba Akalele

Ubaba (my father is not at peace)

nomfo' kasibiya izolo
(I met up with yesterday)
Wathi "we-jonathan, angiphathekile mina
(he said, "jonathan, I am in a bad way)
Ngiphupha ubaba ongasekho ekhomba yakhe
(I of my late father pointing at his ox)
Ngikhumbula engitshela "wemfana wami
(and I him telling me -- "my boy
Uma ngihamba kulomhlaba wami
(on the day I pass away and this earth)
Musa ngebokisi (x3)
(do not me in a coffin)
Wemfana
(my boy)
Awungebesa ngesikhumba senkomo emhlophe, wemfana
(you should bury me in the skin of a white ox, my boy)
Awungihambisa ngenkomo
(you should send me on my last journey by of a white ox)
Inkomo, kababa, wo-ye-ye-ye!
(the ox, the ox of my father....)

Akalele ekhaya
(father is not at at home)
ibokisi, ufuna inkomo
(he does not a coffin, he wants an ox)
Akalele ekhaya
(father is not at home)
Washo wathi "jonathan lalela lana
(sibiya continued saying, "jonathan, here.)
Ngokushona kwenzeka isimanga
(on the day my father died a most thing happened)
Abantu babethi bayamdumisa
(our thought they would give hima great sendoff)
Bamfihla engalifuni
(and they buried him in a coffin, knowing he did not this)
Saxabana thina bomndeni (x2)
(we fought ourselves, we the members of the family)
Saxabana ngathi mina bayasithela ngebadi
(we argued because I said they had done something would bring great
Misfortune)
ngelelolanga sifihla ubaba
(it was the day we buried my father)
ngelelolanga
(it was that day)

Ubaba ekhaya, ugudla isibaya
(father is not at ease at home, his spirit around the cattle
Enclosure)
Ibokisi selimbophile
(it feels by the coffin)
isikhumba senkomo yakhe (x2)
(his still wants to be accompanied by his ox)